Ventura, Calif.
Andrew Luster, an heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune, began serving 124 years for rape in California this week, after bounty hunters captured him in Mexico. Luster jumped his $1 million bail in January, shortly before he was convicted of drugging and raping three women. He videotaped some of the assaults. Luster, 39, hid on Mexico’s Pacific coast, surfing by day and partying by night. He used an alias, David Carrera, but tourists recognized him and alerted the bounty hunters. In a journal found in his hotel room, Luster apparently tried to justify his actions. He wrote that any “actively sexual person” might have acted as he did. He also scribbled down several pickup lines in Spanish.
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